There are lots more people who could be included on a list like this (Top 100? Top 500?), but these people have captured the imaginations of sports fans for their outrageous actions both in and out of their sports profession...

At this Christmas, the time of giving, there is an interesting occurrence going on in the NFL, something almost without precedent since it began its rise to the top of North American sports during the 1960s...

The recent sale of the Toronto Maple Leafs to arch-media rivals—Rogers and Bell, who own Canada's two major sports-television networks, TSN and Sportsnet—may finally open the door for Southern Ontario relocation/expansion...

Did the NHL really realign or did it just shuffle the deck a little better? In fact, with the exception of Winnipeg moving to a different division, nobody is playing anybody else more often than they did before...

There it was in all its glory: a three-page article, plus a front-page picture in a local Toronto newspaper about a proposed new arena-mall complex to be built north of Metropolitan Toronto in the GTA region of Markham...

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Kevin Glenn was playing for more than just trying to finally get the Hamilton Tiger Cats a playoff win. Defeat by two-time defending champion Montreal would probably have ended his stay in Hamilton and possibly that of his coach Marcel Bellefeuille...

This year, Canadians wishing to see the Stanley Cup return to Canada may have more than the Vancouver Canucks to place their hope in—and it's not simply because the addition of the Winnipeg Jets has increased the odds...

For NHL hockey fanatics in Scandinavia, things just got a whole lot better. And for the NHL, it just took another step to becoming more European in a way its owners and officials love—with more money...

When the NHL Board of Governors holds its main meeting in December, significant changes to the form of the NHL could result. Two issues are said to be on the agenda, and if both are addressed, they will affect six teams...

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